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There was a
lady lived in a hall,
Large of eyes and slim and
tall;
And ever she sang from noon to noon,
Two red
roses across the moon.
There was a knight came
riding by
In early spring, when the roads were dry;
And he heard that lady sing at the noon,
Two red
roses across the moon.
Yet none the more he
stopped at all,
But he rode a-gallop past the hall;
And left that lady singing at noon,
Two red roses
across the moon.
Because, forsooth, the battle
was set,
And the scarlet and gold had got to be met,
He rode on the spur till the next warm noon;
Two red
roses across the moon.
But the battle was
scattered from hill to hill,
From the windmill to the
watermill;
And he said to himself, as it neared the
noon,
Two red roses across the moon.
You
scarce could see for the scarlet and blue
A golden
helm or a golden shoe;
So he cried, as the fight grew
thick at the noon,
Two red roses across the moon.
Verily then the gold bore through
The huddled
spears of the scarlet and blue;
And they cried, as
they cut them down at the noon,
Two red roses across
the moon.
I trow he stopped when he rode again
By the hall, though draggled sore with the rain;
And
his lips were pinched to kiss at the noon
Two red
roses across the moon.
Under the may she stooped
to the crown,
All was gold, there was nothing of
brown,
And the horns blew up in the hall at noon,
Two red roses across the moon.
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